Senior Data Architect - Public Sector Data & Governance

Scrumconnect Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in London, UK, seeks a Senior Data Architect to design how data is structured, shared and governed across public sector services. You will define data models and standards that enable secure data sharing and reuse across organisations.

You will shape data flows, governance, and metadata approaches, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and security requirements, and produce architecture artefacts and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a data architect on complex systems.
• Strong data modelling skills across relational and modern data platforms.
• Experience defining data standards, interoperability and data sharing approaches.
• Experience with data governance, quality and metadata management.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Ability to explain data architecture to technical and non-technical audiences.
• UK government or public sector experience.
• Experience with open standards and the Technology Code of Practice.
• Experience with registers, identifiers or master data management.

Responsibilities

• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models for complex services.
• Define data standards, identifiers and reference data that work across organisations.
• Design data flows, integration patterns and APIs for sharing data.
• Set data governance, quality, lineage and metadata approaches.
• Make sure designs meet security, privacy and UK GDPR requirements.
• Produce architecture artefacts such as data architecture views, decision records and roadmaps.
• Work with product, research, analysis and engineering teams so data design meets real needs.
• Take designs through technical governance and advise senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data standards

Data governance

Open standards

Public sector experience

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in London, UK, seeks a Senior Data Architect to design how data is structured, shared and governed across public sector services. You will define data models and standards that enable secure data sharing and reuse across organisations.

You will shape data flows, governance, and metadata approaches, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and security requirements, and produce architecture artefacts and roadmaps.